Digital research infrastructure
The University鈥檚 鈥楢rgus鈥櫶齎irtual Research Desktops听(VRDs) deliver on-demand, GPU powered, computing resources. It accesses HPC for solving large-scale computational problems and data processing, facilitates fast access to storage of large datasets, and enables graphical processing and visualisation within a graphical user interface.
You can get access to a small dedicated virtual machine (VM) computing environment useful for hosting websites, applications, or databases.
The University offers secure unlimited storage for all your research data. To get access simply fill out a听听and request RDS access.
罢丑别听听is Australia's national research computing service providing researchers with access to high performance computing, cloud, data, visualisation, and research platform services. We provide technical support and access through the听University of Sydney Scheme.听听听
NCI facilities:
- HPC (Gadi)
- GPU computing (Gadi)
- Cloud computing (Nirin)
- Remote Desktops (ARE)
- Data Storage
Acknowledgement
Please acknowledge the use of NCI resources and Sydney Informatics Hub services to ensure the sustainability of our facility. Suggested wording:
- "This research was undertaken with the assistance of resources from the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI Australia), an NCRIS enabled capability supported by the Australian Government and the听Sydney Informatics Hub, a Core Research Facility of the University of Sydney."
罢丑别听听(Pawsey)听is one of Australia's national research computing services, providing researchers with access to high performance computing, cloud, data, visualisation, and research platforms. We provide technical support and access through the听University of Sydney Scheme.
Pawsey facilities:
- HPC (Setonix)
- GPU computing (Setonix)
- Data Storage (Acacia)
Acknowledgement
Please acknowledge the use of Pawsey resources and Sydney Informatics Hub services to ensure the sustainability of our facility. Suggested wording:
- "This research was undertaken with the assistance of resources from the听Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre, an NCRIS enabled capability supported by the Australian Government and the听Sydney Informatics Hub, a Core Research Facility of the University of Sydney."
The University has collaborations and affiliations with many commercial computing services. Most services offer some free-tier level of compute. Many are looking for research workloads to test their facilities, and you can always purchase additional time and resources, to scale rapidly for your needs.
We provide support with accessing:
- 听鈥� free access is available by merit through听or paid access can be arranged through the University of Sydney
- 听鈥� free access is available by merit through听听or paid access can be arranged through the University of Sydney
- 听鈥� is a web application for easily launching AWS computing services
- 听鈥� free access is available by merit through听. For more information about accessing Commercial Cloud please contact听sih.info@sydney.edu.au.
Research data management platforms
The University offers a suite of tools to assist researchers in managing their research data. These platforms and best data management practices enable researchers to preserve the context and continuity of their research. Our online tools enable simple and secure collaboration, and allow alignment of research practice with requirements in University and national policy.
罢丑别听Researcher Dashboard (DashR)听is a centralised tool for researchers to register research data planning information and to request/manage associated data and computing services.
DashR can be used to:
- Enter and maintain your details
- Request data storage on the听听辞谤听
- Control and update user access to the above services
The eNotebook provides researchers with a collaborative working tool suitable for both internal and external collaborators. The eNotebook is versatile and can be used in any discipline. It is a great option for curating, storing and sharing working documents, procedures, observations, conclusions, notes, images and data files. Its strengths include the ability to consolidate all sorts of research data along with a rigorous audit trail to maintain integrity of the data.
Research Electronic Data Capture (REDCap)听is an online, customisable data capture tool. It provides the ideal means to gather data in a secure environment and avoids the need to enter data into spreadsheets or use paper-based forms and surveys.
REDCap makes it easy to collect standardised, clean data. Researchers and external collaborators can simultaneously access their sensitive data on REDCap in a secure, encrypted manner.
The Research Data Store (RDS) is the University鈥檚 primary data store. It is an enterprise grade Network Attached Storage (NAS) device for storing research data, which has a large and expandable storage capacity.
A package of Microsoft programs, both desktop and web-based, for collaborative document editing and data management. OneDrive can be used for data storage, which has a desktop syncing application. OneNote can be used to collate research-based contextual information e.g. research process journals and metadata.
The University鈥檚 enterprise edition of GitHub is the Code Repository, a software repository management platform that provides a university-wide resource for code management, code review, and general collaboration. The code repository includes virtually the same set of features as github.com but is self-contained and managed by the University.
The FileSender function of AARNet is a secure, large file sending solution. Files up to 2TB in size can be sent to specified recipients, with the additional option to encrypt files for secure sending of highly protected data.
Ingenuity Pathway Analysis (IPA)鈥痠s a powerful analysis and search tool that uncovers the significance of 鈥榦mics data and identifies new targets or candidate biomarkers within the context of biological systems.听
Licensing
The University has five IPA licenses that are available free of charge to Sydney University students, researchers, and affiliates. Users are required to book their sessions using SydneyFMS. Please email us at鈥痵ih.info@sydney.edu.au鈥痶o get access to IPA.听
Training
The鈥疩IAGEN Bioinformatics鈥痺ebsite has a set of training materials including:听听
听is a free web-based bioinformatics analysis and workflow platform. It contains thousands of bioinformatics tools to combine, analyse and interpret genomic (DNA), transcriptomic (RNA), proteomic (proteins) and metabolomic (small molecules) data. It provides a simple point-and-click graphical user interface. and aims to make applying bioinformatics approaches on powerful national computing infrastructure easier.
The use of the SIH services including HPC (NCI and our legacy Artemis service) and associated support and training warrants acknowledgement in any publications, conference proceedings or posters describing work facilitated by these services.
The continued acknowledgment of the use of SIH facilities ensures the sustainability of our services.
Suggested wording
General acknowledgement:听
"The authors acknowledge the technical assistance provided by the Sydney Informatics Hub, a Core Research Facility of the University of Sydney."
Acknowledging specific staff:
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For further information about acknowledging the Sydney Informatics Hub, please contact us at .